August 19, 2005
Friday Night on Campus
Hi. It's Friday night. I'm sitting on the grass in front of the Hillel building because I discovered on Monday that I can get free wireless internet here. I had to drive around for about twenty minutes to rediscover the location of the Hillel. It's 11:08 pm. The cicadas are whirring in the trees. They sound like machines or monsters or monster machines. I'm sick of them. I've heard that you get used to them and after a while you can hear the birds over their incessent buzz. That'll be a nice day. It's humid here. I'm lonely.
But I felt enormously satisfied because today, I made it to and from campus without getting lost AND I also made it to the Borders earlier without getting lost, so... guess I'm finding my way around.
Something else about here is the sun. It's huge and round. It's not the setting sun in the West, which peaks over the mountains and you get just glimpses of its curve. This sun is the red disk taking over the sky. The annoying thing about this is that it provides a horrible glare while I'm trying to Internet. See, it all goes back to technology. The red/orange sun should please keep my convenience in mind the next time it sets while I'm sitting at a patio table at Borders trying to keep in touch with people.
Kay, I'm going home now... Or maybe I'll drive around some more.
Posted by kea at August 19, 2005 11:10 PM